{"id":412323,"date":"2026-04-22T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412323\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T20:39:09","slug":"irish-income-taxes-are-below-average-and-closer-to-us-than-many-eu-peers-oecd-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/412323\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish income taxes are below average and closer to US than many EU peers, OECD data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The average single Irish worker pays a \u2018tax wedge\u2019 of 32pc\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finance Minister Simon Harris\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/@Wicklow Minister.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Finance Minister Simon Harris<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Irish workers pay less tax than the EU average with rates closer to the US than high-tax EU economies such as Belgium, France and Germany, according to analysis by the OECD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The so-called \u201ctax wedge\u201d for a single Irish worker on the average wage is 32pc \u2013 slightly more than the US and far less than Belgium\u2019s 52.5pc, the data shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average single Irish worker pays a \u2018tax wedge\u2019 of 32pc Finance Minister Simon Harris Irish workers pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17979,5168,72,14486,113,1814,292,61,60,13808,29711,70,5066,812],"class_list":["post-412323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-belgium","tag-budget","tag-business","tag-donal-odonovan","tag-economy","tag-france","tag-germany","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jack-chambers","tag-oecd","tag-simon-harris","tag-tax","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}